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TIL that inkjet printers made by companies such as HP and Epson lie to you by telling you your ink cartridges are empty before they really are.

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VBMBk TIL Sony Pictures Entertainment admitted that a highly positive review written by a critic named David Manning to the 2000 American epic historical war film The Patriot, was a product of the studio’s advertising department, as the reviewer never existed.
WkRo8 TIL in the USSR, there was a course where every student was required to assemble an AK47 under a time limit in order to graduate from high school (начальная военная подготовка).
R50D4 TIL According to the International Journal of Epidemiology and Health, one out of every twenty-five men will raise another man’s child and not know it.
R7Nna TIL Beaver’s teeth are fortified with iron, which causes the orange coloring, and allows them to the “chew” wood.
LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."